I agree with Damien, Bitsream Vera fonts really looks great, especially with the freetype plugin.
Since one week, I am now using Pharo with these fonts for development and it's incredibly confortable. Oh by the way it seems that it is only when I am using these fonts from my Linux distribution I can enjoy the beautifull rendering. So may be user now in Windows and Mac has never so how nice the rendering is with these fonts. I am using both Bitstream Vera Sans and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. This last one is especially good for code to avoid reading confusion between 0O, l1 (see screenshot) When using the embedded Bitstream font, it seems the old not-so-nice True Type rendering is used. I saw that from the latest PharoPolymorphTT distribution where the original Bitstream Vera fonts are still there.. By the way, how to add a TT font in the image so it can be used by the FreeType rendering engine? Hilaire 2008/12/1 Damien Pollet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:33, Adrian Lienhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think Bitstream Vera Sans Mono would be quite good. > > Yes, especially since it has a full family of bold/italics and > variable-width sans/serif variants. > The DejaVu fonts are derived from Vera but have a condensed (less wide) > version. > Also both have very good unicode coverage, so unless someone finds a > prettier alternative with the same technical qualities, I would say > the choice is rather obvious. > >> I slightly prefer Monaco, which is shipped with OS X, but I don't know its >> license (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_(typeface)). > > I doubt you can redistribute it like that. > >> http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html which looks nice too. > > Yuck, looks like Courier and unknown license. > > For a single mono-space font, Inconsolata looks more like Monaco, is > under OFL, and has a bit more glyphs (up arrow). > -- > Damien Pollet > type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire
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